1.4Music count nounEach of the four gaps between the five lines of a stave.

‘If we go up three spaces into the treble clef or down three into the bass, we will find C again.’

‘A gifted music teacher, he even devised his own system of music writing with four spaces between five lines to show the strings and the numbers from zero to four to guide the fingers.’

‘While devices abound for remembering the names of the lines and spaces of the treble and bass clefs, children often do not remember which saying is for which clef and then which is for lines and which for spaces.’

‘You can use a word or silly sentence to help you memorize which notes belong on the lines or spaces of a clef.’

‘B on the A string, a perfect fifth higher, is one space above the top line or three staff spaces above the E.’

2The dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move.

‘the work gives the sense of a journey in space and time’

‘Anything that exists within space is by definition finite, no matter how big it gets.’

‘In life, we exist in space and time: time moves forwards with cause and effect, and we physically move around with our bodies.’

‘Where these lines converge, there is a tunnel that opens up and moves through space and time into other dimensions.’

‘Furthermore, could we explore the idea of the body as a dynamic nonlinear hologram existing within a fractal space?’

‘Eventually the aesthetics cancel each other out and it's just about bodies moving through space.’

‘I'm particularly interested in the geometry, but it is also about recording how people move through space.’

‘It does not have the same kind of reality as individuals have, for each of them is a substance, existing in space.’

‘This has involved studies of supersymmetry and, most recently, extra dimensions of space.’

‘It is not love of a real homeland that exists in time and space.’

‘We are familiar with three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension of time.’

‘Dance is an art form that exists simultaneously in space and time.’

‘However, his work made people rethink old ideas and led to new approaches to the fundamental concepts of space and time.’

‘In this way, the bodies of the dancers become linked to the concepts of space, time and transcendence.’

‘Law is one such labyrinth, a concept or abstraction like time, space, or identity, devised to create order out of chaos.’

‘It makes my head go dizzy, like when trying to imagine the universe and the concept of infinite space.’

‘These are equations involving the rate of change of quantities either in time, or in space, or in both, and are a part of calculus.’

‘He had weekly meetings with her and at her request he entered into dispute with Leibniz over the nature of space and time.’

2.1The physical universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.

‘Patrick talks to Dr Duncan Steel about the threat of objects in space colliding with Earth.’

‘For instance, consider the problem of launching a vehicle from Earth into space.’

‘The Aurora is able to fly from the atmosphere into space and then return to Earth.’

‘If this is the true shape of the universe, it means space is finite.’

‘But he was ignored because of his wild ideas, like the proposition that life came to Earth from space.’

‘In space, as on Earth, there is no such thing as a free lunch - not to mention a free launch.’

‘Simply put, a space elevator is a revolutionary way of getting from Earth into space.’

‘Here on Earth and out in space, communications would seem to be important if we need to defend ourselves from enemies.’

‘The space around the Earth is more dangerous than scientists thought, according to new research.’

‘Apparently Turkey is planning to send a rocket into space and explore a planet, by 2014.’

‘She made it possible for further studies to enable Man to step off his home planet and survive in space.’

‘In the future as in the present, humanity still yearns to reach out into space and explore the stars.’

‘The view of our own planet from space is quite literally out of this world.’

‘His first extended mission in space was a stay aboard Mir in 1988.’

‘But the next big area up for grabs is space, and whoever dominates space will dominate the planet.’